Payments to Horizon scandal victims to pass £650m by March

The Post Office expects to have paid out more than £650m in compensation to branch owner-operators by March, after the ITV series about the Horizon IT scandal resulted in a huge spike in claims, the inquiry heard yesterday.

- Mark Sweney

Simon Recaldin, the head of the four redress schemes the Post Office runs, told the public inquiry into the scandal that the state-owned body had so far paid out £302m after the hundreds of wrongful prosecutions that were based on evidence from the flawed IT system.